TITANIUM:

Your Pool Heater Can't Live Without It

Today’s gas & oil pool heaters still use copper heat exchangers. In pool water, copper slowly turns to powdery green copper chloride. Heat , chlorine and acid all make copper corrode faster. A number of pool dealers have reported that “normally” 10% of all fossil fuel heaters corrode and leak within 2-5 years, and a new heat exchanger costs about $350.00

Planned Obsolescence? - Maybe.

GAMBLING? - Definitely.

Although Pool Heat Pump's offer up to 80% savings in fuel cost and are generally much more reliable and safer than gas pool heaters, if a water heat exchanger gets a hole in it (usually due to corrosion) and pool water enters the sealed refrigeration system, THE ENTIRE HEAT PUMP IS RUINED!!

Heat Siphon is designed and built with a special heat exchanger to totally eliminate corrosion.

The pure titanium heat exchanger tube material was selected based on corrosion tests at 100 F with a pH of 4.75 and chlorine levels 5000 parts per million (1000 times greater than normal pool water) Although this is a severe test, it simulates realistic possible conditions such as chlorine tablets in skimmers and out of balance pool water. Cupronickel, 304 & 316 stainless steels. and other alloys were tested including Titanium.

SEE RESULTS - After 48 hours cupronickel lost 9% of its original weight and 304 & 316 stainless steels corroded even more severely.

ONLY PURE TITANIUM SHOWED VIRTUALLY NO MEASURABLE CORROSION!!

HEAT SIPHON HISTORY -In 1983 the first HEAT SIPHON used 90/10 Cupronickel for the heat exchanger tubing material. The first year of production, the failure rate due to corrosion was so high it almost put Heat Siphon out of business. Instead, the founder decided to back up his warranty and replaced every corroded heat exchanger, in the process keeping his customers and of course prompting the Electrically Isolated Titanium Heat Exchanger design and the tradition of "WE PERFORM TO KEEP YOU WARM!!"